Employee Privacy in the Digital Age I. Employees in Cyberspace: Meeting the Challenges of the Digital Age

Arbitrator Allen Ponak talks about his recent Canadian cases dealing with employee use andabuse of the Internet and other new technologies and the balance between the employer’s having efficient operations and an employee’s right to privacy. Subjects include non-business online surfing, inappropriate websites, email privacy, the right to blog, the use of biometric identification data and the implications of who owns the computer.